Plus $1 billion...

[Angrboda]

I've never played the lottery.  In general, I don't gamble.  I've thought about it when the payout gets this high, but it's still pretty stupid no matter how you rationalize it.

I could take the cash I'd use to buy a lottery ticket and set fire to it in the hope that a djinn would materialize out of the smoke and grant me three wishes.  The odds are about the same.

As a general rule, I don't gamble (if you'll concede that poker is a game of skill).

Boru

With me and poker it would be just as well if I lit the money on fire. So I tend not to play poker unless I'm really drunk. There might be a connection between those two things.

Oddly enough the same holds true of strip poker.